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Biographical entry Lush, Dora Mary (1910 - 1943)

Born

31 July 1910Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Died

20 May 1943Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Occupation

Bacteriologist

Summary

Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, where she worked closely with Macfarlane Burnet. After a period of time in England Lush returned to the Institute in 1942. On 27 April 1943, while working on a vaccine for scrub typhus, Lush accidentally pricked her finger while inoculating a mouse. She died of the disease three weeks later.